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ideological dogmatist
just to help everyone out, here is a full list of possible victims
I agree - this has left the Met looking very, very bad indeed and if there's a public enquiry, some officers will be up to their necks in itEither I'm not getting the full deal here or the Met have acted way, way beyond what's acceptable; apart from everything that went before (and that was far too much anyway), Gordon Brown wrote 6 months ago to Scotland Yard about his phone calls being accessed while he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and hasn't even had a reply?
Jesus, can you imagine if someone in the markets had known of this wheeze.
This is hugely serious stuff and the Met have just sat on it.
This is hugely serious stuff and the Met have just sat on it.
Bottom line imo, is that heads should roll (if not for collusion then incompetence) nor should any found to be guilty in this respect be allowed to sidle comfortably into some lucrative little consultancy number.
Well, even phone hackers have human rights. Not sure how you're going to restrict their right to work wherever they find employment.
true - but why should John Prescott, Simon Hughes, Max Clifford and Elle McPherson be running scared of the Wapping skinheads?
answer to para1; fair enough, except that I was quibbling why all those celebs would let wariness at pissing off NI win over their natural and justified anger at what is, whichever way you look at it, an outrageous violation of privacy.Because Clifford relies on the papers to run his business, Prescott might have similar problems in his own party soon, McPherson will probably be paid off, and Hughes... well he might keep running with it, I suppose.
As for the Met and CPS and their failure to prosecute, as I have said before on this thread I can well understand why they are reluctant to do so given the failure of previous investigations on the same topic. Any reasonably detailed, in-depth look at what the NOTW was doing will inevitably go on to what the rest of Fleet Street was doing, will almost certainly attract the ire of what would probably be a united press and its assorted hangers-on, would probably require at least dozens of officers for a prolonged period of time, and would probably only result in piffling sentences (Goodman got four months, Mulcaire six, the people convicted in Motorman - including a Met civilian worker who had been paid to access the PNC - got conditional discharges) anyway.
Because Clifford relies on the papers to run his business,
Police have launched a fresh investigation into phone hacking after receiving "significant new information", Scotland Yard has said.
The information relates to hacking at the News of the World in 2005, which led to its royal editor being jailed.
The BBC has learned the paper sacked former head of news Ian Edmondson on Tuesday following an internal inquiry.
A source said a trawl of his e-mails had found "highly damaging evidence" that had been passed to the police.
Details of the case remain concealed by court orders. However, a senior News International executive has claimed that Dan Evans's defence is that he phoned Kelly Hoppen's number for legitimate reasons and accidentally accessed her voicemail when the keys on his phone got stuck.
very probably, but ol' Rupe's the newspaper proprietor you'd want to see hurt most. He's in London right now, and getting hands on in a way he's not done for years. Given that all this is happening at the same time as he's trying to get approval for the sky buyout, the bastard must be rattledI suspect that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Widespread throughout News International and other media groups too.
These allegations of hacking within the last year are new aren't they?
the Kelly Hoppen ones? yes, I think they are.These allegations of hacking within the last year are new aren't they?
...and now m'lud Norman Fowler, no less and in full pomposity mode, has called for a full inquiry!
never mind last year, tessa jowell reckons she was hacked LAST WEEK!!!These allegations of hacking within the last year are new aren't they?
This just keeps on givingITV's political reporter Lucy Manning tweets:
Tessa Jowell confirms to ITV News she has been in touch with police this week about possible attempt to hack into her phone last week